{"id":922728,"date":"2026-07-09T08:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/922728\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:05:21","slug":"city-of-phoenix-employees-join-nationwide-declaration-of-independence-recitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/922728\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Phoenix Employees Join Nationwide\u00a0Declaration of Independence\u00a0Recitation\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Phoenix employees participated in the nationwide \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiamerica250.org\/sharing-the-spirit-of-america\" title=\"https:\/\/hawaiiamerica250.org\/sharing-the-spirit-of-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sharing the Spirit of America<\/a>\u201d program on July 8, joining communities across all 50 states, U.S. territories, and locations around the world in a synchronized recitation of the Declaration of Independence. This national effort, organized to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration\u2019s first public reading, brought together participants across multiple time zones for a unified observance. <\/p>\n<p>At Phoenix City Hall, the event began at 2:30 p.m. with a presentation of colors by the City of Phoenix Multi-Agency Color Guard and a brief video highlighting City employees\u2019 ongoing service to the community and the country. At 3 p.m., employees from across the organization joined thousands nationwide in reading the Declaration. Watch the full event. <\/p>\n<p>Learn more about how the City of Phoenix is celebrating America 250, including a downtown historic walk and other events at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoenix.gov\/history\" title=\"https:\/\/www.phoenix.gov\/history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix.gov\/History<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of Phoenix employees participated in the nationwide \u201cSharing the Spirit of America\u201d program on July 8, joining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":922729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,119118,8294,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-922728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-city-manager","tag-communications","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116888988951835352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}